National ESG index update: An assessment of the G20 countries

Innovation and Green Development Pub Date : 2024-04-16 DOI:10.1016/j.igd.2024.100147

Ping-Chuan Jiang

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Abstract

This paper reviews and updates the indicator system constructed by previous scholars. The update of the index includes: Firstly, the latest data of 2021 is added to the original data of 1990–2020. Secondly, the World Bank's indicator system has been restructured and optimized, for example by removing duplicative and unimportant indicators. To demonstrate the characteristics of the updated national ESG indices, this paper conducts a preliminary analysis of the ESG performance of 19 members of the G20 and draws the following conclusions: In general, the national ESG performance of all G20 countries has increased from 1990 to 2021. China has experienced the largest growth, jumping from last to first place in the East Asia group, which is strongly correlated with regulators' aggressive pursuit of high-quality development through environmental regulation and the Chinese government's goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2060. ESG development has been slow in India and South Africa, where racial issues, social inequality and government corruption continue to constrain ESG performance.

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国家环境、社会和公司治理指数更新：对 20 国集团国家的评估

本文对以往学者构建的指标体系进行了回顾和更新。指标的更新包括首先，在原有 1990-2020 年数据的基础上，增加了 2021 年的最新数据。其次，对世界银行的指标体系进行了重组和优化，例如删除了重复和不重要的指标。为了展示更新后的国家环境、社会和治理指数的特点，本文对 G20 的 19 个成员的环境、社会和治理表现进行了初步分析，并得出以下结论：总体而言，从 1990 年到 2021 年，所有 G20 国家的国家环境、社会和公司治理表现都有所提高。中国的增长幅度最大，从东亚组的最后一名跃升至第一名，这与监管机构通过环境监管积极追求高质量发展以及中国政府到 2060 年实现碳中和的目标密切相关。印度和南非的ESG发展缓慢，种族问题、社会不平等和政府腐败继续制约着ESG表现。

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Innovation and Green Development

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